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In July 2006, Microsoft released the Windows version free of charge.

After Microsoft acquired Virtual PC from Connectix in 2003, the program was renamed Microsoft Virtual PC. Version 4 was released in 2000 for both Mac OS and Windows, and version 5 (2001) added support for Mac OS X hosts.

Until version 4, Virtual PC only supported Classic Mac OS hosts. The Mac version was discontinued in 2006 following the Mac transition to Intel, while the Windows version was discontinued in 2011 in favour of Hyper-V. It was created by Connectix in 1997 and acquired by Microsoft in 2003. Virtual PC is an x86 emulator for PowerPC Mac hosts and a virtualization app for Microsoft Windows hosts.

For the generic term, see Virtual machine. This article is about the virtualization software by Microsoft.